Re:Bots in the wild != controlled experimentation (Score 1)

Re Turing's Original Game: Why did Turing devise it this way? Why was the man to be given the task of deception? What gender was the human Judge meant to be???? This brings me to the one absurdity in Turing's piece which has no validity at all in reality - Turing's argument against the pre-emptive Theological argument: "How do Christians regard the Moslem view that women have no souls?" [Turing, 1950] Where did Turing get this piece of false information during the middle of the last century? How many Muslims, especially Muslim females had he been in contact with? Had he even read the Qu'ran? His comment regarding the Muslim view is astounding when you consider that it was only in the same 20th century, in which he wrote his "Computing Machinery & Intelligence" that the United Kingdom finally provided their own women the right to vote. It is only as late as in 1918 that the honour of voting was granted to women, aged 30 and over, while men 21 and over could do so. This is at a time when women in countries such as New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Russia, etc. enjoyed the vote, whilst women in the Netherlands could stand for election. I wish I had been alive when Turing's "Can a Machine think?" was published, as a female Muslim I would have advised him, yes machine can think, if machine built to imitate a man's way of thinking! And finally, to the April 16th experiment, it is not original because the Loebner Contests have featured female and male confederates (hidden humans) who have been confused as opposite to their real gender, as well as both being considered machine-like by at least one Judge (see Loebner 2003 Contest results and my paper on "Evaluating Artificial & Natural Language Generation in Loebner 2003"). Huma